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Ash Hickey آشلي

@ordinaryash.bsky.social
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She/Her. Aspiring medical historian with an interest in how respectability/morality is applied to the body/illness. Based in Aotearoa. Harm reduction advocate. Dog lover. Flower afficionado. Knows how to throw together a meal. Shoddy crafter. Hot mess.

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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
First time back in the office today, which meant it was my first time using stairs post-breast reduction. What do you mean people are going down stairs and they can see the step and they're not just treading blindly? (It's me, I'm people now 🥹🥹🥹)
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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Killing time and found myself in the Farmers lingerie section for the first time post-breast reduction. I had to leave in a hurry because I got teary–for the exact opposite reason I normally get emotional bra shopping. There was something in every brand, style and COLOUR that would fit me 🥹🥹🥹
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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Nailed it 🫡
Child's birthday cake resembling the Fortnite battle bus. A blue iced bus with chocolate hot air balloon
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Erin 🏳️‍⚧️ @queerjoy.nz · 28/09/2026
The lunchslop will haunt my dreams.
An image selection catpcha complete with "I'm not a robot" box.
It says "select all squares with Rustic Potatoes", and an array of nine not very appetising school lunch pictures is below. Some of these do in fact contain Rustic Potatoes.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In panel one we see Sarah, the protagonist, lying in bed with the lights out. She says, "Is everyone ready for sleep?"
In panel two we see a brain, heart, and stomach. They say, "Yes!" "Yup!" and "Yep!" 
In panel three we see a bladder, squirming. A speech panel says "Bladder?"
In panel four the bladder looks up. It says, weakly, "I don't know".
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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Excuse me, what? What have they done to my boy 😭
Thumbnail of Disney Robin Hood except Robin, Maid Miriam and Little John have been creepily animated in soulness modern style Thumbnail of Disney Robin Hood except Robin has been creepily animated in soulness modern style
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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My freezer just died. It was half full of surgery meal prep and half full of dog and human meat (as in for each species to eat, respectively, not the flesh of). And it's the day after our fortnightly shop so fridge is already packed. Fml 😭
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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
REN FAIRE PEOPLE: I'm trying to find good references for medieval clothing, but the space is completely deluged in AI slop now. Are there any particular sites/galleries/servers that are popular in the community and kept slop-free?
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
and like why are we centering the complaints of the parents who think the value of sports is "my kid might become a star" instead of the ones who are like "this is a great way to learn teamwork, move your body every day, work hard at a skill, and learn how to lose or fail at things with grace"
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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
No one warned me before I got a breast reduction that the headlights could get stuck in the on position, like ON on. Apparently they may or may not chill tf out in a few months time.
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Flashy Headlights
ALT: Flashy Headlights
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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
this "political outsider" who hasn't had a job outside parliament since 1979, who has worked with every major party that exists and several who don't anymore, who will pivot his entire platform on a dime because something's doing the numbers on facebook, fuck offfffff
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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Nectarines incoming 😍
Two bees jostle for space on a pink nectarine flower. Blue sky in the background.
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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Thesis writing essentials. Not pictured:bottomless cup of tea and state of existential dread.
Miniature gold slinky, blue need-oh dream drop, green dino scales crazy Aaron's thinking putty, pink specs odds magnet balls, and a selection of wrapped lollies inside a pink marlestone dish. All items sit atop a pink desk pad.
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Dr Amanda McVitty @dramandamcvitty.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you care about governments being held accountable, then you need to know about disastrous cuts being planned for Archives NZ and the National Library. These cuts don't just make it much harder to do history. They undermine the institutions at the heart of our democracy.
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 09/09/2026
Toad: No! Haha! I’m not sorry at all! Haha! And it wasn’t folly, it was SIMPLY GLORIOUS!
Toad gonna Toad
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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Moment of panic just now after I fired off uncensored photos of my boobs via text to my surgeon without first double and triple checking the number. It was right. I checked three times after the panic. Better check again just to be sure though.
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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🫩
Image of maslows hierarchy of needs pyramid
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Julia Barton @bartona104.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
counterpoint: strongest argument FOR
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Dr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Okay, I'm embarrassed on behalf of whoever made this choice - pretty basic that if you're talking about a woman maybe PUT HER IN THE HEADLINE IMAGE #nzpol
She worked as a journalist for Newshub before gaining a Masters in Global Diplomacy and working for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. (Accompanied by an image of Chris Penk)
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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
As bleak as the world is rn and as toxic as the spaces men's/boys frequent can be, I consider it no small victory that my nearly 12yo son's first instinct is to ask his parents every time he encounters an unfamiliar concept. Even if if I am thoroughly unprepared in the moment.
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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Taking recommendations for good shows to binge on netflix, tvnz, hbomax, or disney+ I'm a wee bit sore but the codeine is codeine-ing for now. It's very hard to force myself to rest. My breasts are officially small and humble 🎉🎉🎉 #breastreduction
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Shakira Whenever Wherever Music Video
Alt: Shakira Whenever Wherever Music Video
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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Scheduling a major(ish) surgery for 2 days after a conference was possibly a terrible idea. I just want to mope around the house but I have so much to do 😭
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Andrew Dickson @andrewdickson13.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
In December 2023 the Secretary of Education emailed the Director-General of Health asking her to "soften" the stay-home-if-sick messaging. Not a doctor. Acting for a Minister who is also not a doctor. I have the email, via OIA. #nzpol 🧵 1/
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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I got sent to art therapy as a 21yo after an acute period of traumatic experiences culminating in ending up unemployed & homeless during the GFC. The worst part was she only had crap thin paper & shitty crayons. I've never figured out what either of us was supposed to have got from those sessions.
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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
If you are looking for something to do in Wellington tomorrow I highly recommend We're Wierd For Other Reasons. The whole cast was an absolute delight to watch and they brought everyone in the audience along for the ride no matter how familiar they were with asexuality bats.co.nz/whats-on/wer...
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We're Weird For Other Reasons – BATS
Asexual and Aromantic Lives
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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I feel like slop is overly generous here as the term implies a certain level of moisture 🚱
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Spongebob Squarepants and Patrick Star Crying
ALT: Spongebob Squarepants and Patrick Star Crying
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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The 5 Simpsons lines I’ve uttered most off the top of my head: 1. My cans! My precious antique cans. 2. You're living in the past Marge. Quit living in the past. 3. Eugh! I'll take a crab juice. 4. I noticed Malloy wore sneakers...for sneaking. 5. My secret shame!
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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Wtf air nz. They changed my partner's flight from 7.45am to 6am at midnight last night. It's a connecting flight for an international flight. We live over an hour from the airport 😬. Literal nightmare scenario, as in I'm pretty sure I've had this nightmare before.
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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Social Historian: Although much of the existing scholarship is primarily concentrated the full half of the cup, a careful 'across the grain' reading of sources can reveal valuable insights about the contents of the missing half.
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marlo @marlo.ooo · 22/08/2026
honestly we’re such little shits with our vocabularies sometimes
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Just an American chemical rep, in the wake of Silent Spring, explaining to a Canadian Parliamentary cttee in 1963 why we couldn't give up on pesticides like DDT: we needed to feed the impending population explosion ...that would, uh, result in Doomsday on 13 Nov 2026. Good times. #cdnhist #envhist
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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Non-zero chance that I'm under-exaggerating the number of post-it notes here. There are piles buried everywhere at home and at my office. Really need to sort this out 😭
Askew wooden drawer revealing haphazard jumble of papers, coloured post-it notes and assorted junk.
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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Selfie because otherwise this blowout is going to be wasted on a wfh afternoon
Car selfie of a woman with black sunglasses, yellow top, blue cardigan and mid-length dark blonde hair.
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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Their lack of respect for royal tradition remains disgusting. You’re supposed to do this after converting to Catholicism and using French subsidies to hire a bunch of mercenaries.
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The Spreadsheet People
Screenshot from that Kelly Rowland music video where she’s trying to text Nelly using Excel
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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Citing irreconcilable differences in my divorce.* The irreconcilable differences being that my partner is spreadsheet people. I am 247 post-it notes and 9 open word documents titled things like "investigate later" people. *I have never been married and am not breaking up with my long-term partner.
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"spreadsheet people"—please. they're called cellcels. put some respect on their name
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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Are we getting stickers this year or am I going to have to source my own? #nzpol
Two DIY "I voted" stickers featuring an orange man with defined musculatur by artist Kooky Draws Things. Top image shows a reclined orange figure with voting box covering crotch area. Bottom image shows orange figure from rear holding a voting card.
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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Have all the oldies who bought offal sadly perished? I went to three stores yesterday looking for kidney to satiate a powerful craving for steak and kidney pie and found no offal except chicken livers. I'm going to have to buy a lacklustre bakery pie 😭
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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
i think Red Bull should redirect like 5% of that money they pay to all those crazy sport competitions etc to funding arts and humanities. cmon guys this is a CORE audience: history students staying up to finish an essay
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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Alright come at me good karma. Just paid $345 for a shingles vaccine, had to insist it get double checked because the very busy nurse had accidentally put it as funded. Also have been on point with my random good deeds game lately.
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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Why is my YouTube algorithm suddenly 30% <1min farting horse videos from 5-15 years ago? 😭
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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Sooooo much eclipse envy rn. There's a total eclipse in the bottom of South Island in 2028, it's been on my calendar for nearly ten years now. Almost time to start planning a trip 😅
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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
It's been a good couple of weeks since my kids would have been first exposed so I think we can chalk this one up as a win for vaccines 🙌
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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Hi international friendos, to help you understand what NZ bluesky is talking about, here is a summary: While Prime Minister Chris has survived leadership challenges from MP Chris (today) and MP Chris (recently), this instability bodes ill for election chances against Former Prime Minister Chris
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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
You know that thing where you hear a word so much it stops feeling like a real word?* I'm officially chrissed out. No more I beg. #nzpol *I googled and apparently it's called semantic satiation, except I refuse to take a term that is 4 letters off semen satiation seriously.
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ered @ered.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Seen some talk of unethical fiction, so here’s my take
Three panel comic titled Unethical Fiction: 
1. Made with AI
2. Printed on human skin
3. The author uses their profits to fund a hate group.
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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Just booked a wee getaway to Taupō with the fam for my 40th. I'm offically 'the funnest thing I can imagine is a roadtrip with my kids' years old 😅 Anyone got the inside scoop on restaurants? Must have dairy free (not vegan) options.
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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
new meme format dropped
the screenshot of Erica Sanford lurking behind Christopher Luxon. She's the AI bubble, he's the global economy
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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I probably should have expected this, but I really was underprepared for just how much of late-19th century medical literature is just the most horrific birth stories I've ever heard. I will not be repeating them, they're THAT bad. But at the same time they are weighing heavily on me.
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